YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

This week Blackbox , founded by entrepreneurs Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Max Marmer, released its first Startup Genome Report — a 67-page in depth analysis on what makes Silicon Valley startups successful based on profiling over 650 startups. Premature scaling is the most common reason for startups to perform worse.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 14, 2014

The big debate among tech circles has always been if it’s possible to build a “Silicon Valley” company outside of the Valley. Is Silicon Valley a physical place or a state of mind ? Starting a company is one thing, but scaling is much tougher outside of Silicon Valley. Related articles.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

But he left to work on what he told me he came to do - crack the innovation code of Silicon Valley and share it with the rest of the world. Investors who provide hands-on help have little or no effect on the company’s operational performance. Max dropped out of Stanford after his first quarter.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. Still others point to the collective sensibility and logic of New Englanders as an operating philosophy. Here’s Mike’s comment: Boston’s B2C problem is one of values. At NextView, we invest across the US.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. Graduated with a BS/MS in bio from Stanford.) Details coming soon!) It sounds interesting.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

In the long ago I spent a brief period of time assisting Pertec, the San Fernando Valley company that bought MITS and its Altair product line. This was before Peachtree Software was formed as an entity; but our precursor team was already working on software, and we were operating a fledgling software exchange for a variety of Altair vendors.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. swing for the fences category-building B2C software capital?—?wasn’t you win on 50% + 1 or you don’t…). That’s relative.

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